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Sub-District of Selma,
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS,
Selma, Ala., November 19th 1868.

Captain H.M. Bush
Agent in ch'g. Buildings
Montgomery, Ala.
[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Captain;

We find that it will be impossible to build the stairs in our School House according to plan without placing the doors of the lower story on that side, close to the walls.  The stairs on plan are marked to be Ten, 10, inches deep.  Making an eight, 8, inch rise, it will require some twenty three, 23, steps to reach the second floor which is 15'6" high.  Mr. Patterson, the superintendent, suggests that "platform stairs" be substituted. That is, make a platform across the hall from side to side, at say ten, 10, feet from lower hall floor, and from this platform reverse the course of the stairs to reach the upper hall.  This plan would allow the doors to remain as in plan.

I wish to call your attention, also, to the partition dividing upper hall in which a window is provided for by plan. If a partition is thought